Ridiculous · Bowling For Soup

93 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-21, 25-26 and 44-49, and 6 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RIDICULOUS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ridiculous?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ridiculous hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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